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Poetry Poetry CharacteristicsCharacteristics

Poetry Definitions Poetry Characteristics

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A style of poetry A style of poetry defined as a defined as a

complete thought complete thought written in two written in two

lines.lines.

CoupletCouplet

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A song-like A song-like poem.poem.

LyricLyric

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A long narrative A long narrative poem in a grand poem in a grand

ceremonious ceremonious style.style.

EpicEpic

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A distinctive poetic A distinctive poetic style that uses style that uses

system or pattern system or pattern metrical structure metrical structure

and verse and verse composition.composition.

SonnetSonnet

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A narrative A narrative folk song.folk song.

BalladBallad

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An elaborately An elaborately formal lyric poem, formal lyric poem, often in the form often in the form

of a lengthy of a lengthy ceremonious ceremonious

address.address.

OdeOde

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A type of A type of literature literature

defined as a defined as a song or poem, song or poem,

written in written in couplets.couplets.

ElegyElegy

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Composed of 14 lines and written

in iambic pentameter.

(Shakespearean)(Shakespearean)SonnetSonnet

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Stories of heroes Stories of heroes and their deeds and their deeds that illustrate that illustrate

values of values of society.society.

EpicEpic

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Multiple stanzas Multiple stanzas that move from that move from grief to praise to grief to praise to

solace.solace.

ElegyElegy

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Praise or Praise or thankfulness thankfulness

that that addresses one addresses one person, place, person, place,

or thing.or thing.

OdeOde

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Stories of Stories of antiheroes and antiheroes and

their their catastrophes catastrophes that illustrate that illustrate

values of values of society.society.

Mock epicMock epic

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Implies but does Implies but does not state a not state a

message while message while illustrating illustrating

thoughts and thoughts and feelings.feelings.

LyricLyric

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Story-like narrative Story-like narrative about love, tragedy, about love, tragedy,

and/or adventureand/or adventure

BalladBallad

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These two poem types are

considered song-like.

Lyric Lyric and and

BalladBallad

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These two poem types illustrate thoughts and

feelings.

Elegy Elegy and and LyricLyric

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These two poem These two poem types have an types have an

extended extended metaphor.metaphor.

Sonnet Sonnet and and ElegyElegy

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These two poem types have repetition.

Ballad Ballad and and LyricLyric

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These three These three poem types poem types

have have heightened heightened

mature mature language.language.

Epic, Epic, Mock Epic, Mock Epic, and Odeand Ode

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Let me not to the marriage of true mindsLet me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters what it alteration finds,Which alters what it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:Or bends with the remover to remove:O no! It is an ever-fixed markO no! It is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;That looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wandering bark,It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be takentaken

Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheekscheeks

Within his bending sickle’s compass come:Within his bending sickle’s compass come:Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.But bears it out even to the edge of doom.It this be error and upon me proved,It this be error and upon me proved,I never write, nor no man ever loved.I never write, nor no man ever loved.

SonnetSonnet

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He disappeared in the dead of winter: The brooks were frozen, the airports almost deserted,

And snow disfigured the public statues;The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day.

What instruments we have agreeThe day of his death was a dark cold day.

You were silly like us; your gift survived it all: The parish of rich women, physical decay, Yourself. Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.

Now Ireland has her madness and her weather still,For poetry makes nothing happen: it survivesIn the valley of its making where executivesWould never want to tamper, flows on south

From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs,Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives,

A way of happening, a mouth.

In the deserts of the heartLet the healing fountain start,

In the prison of his daysTeach the free man how to praise.

ElegyElegy

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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,         Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;    Conspiring with him how to load and bless

        With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;

    To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,        And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;          To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel

shells        With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,

    And still more, later flowers for the bees,  Until they think warm days will never cease,

          For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

OdeOde

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At morn- at noon- at twilight dim- Maria! thou hast heard my hymn!

In joy and woe- in good and ill- Mother of God, be with me still! When the hours flew brightly by,

And not a cloud obscured the sky, My soul, lest it should truant be,

Thy grace did guide to thine and thee; Now, when storms of Fate o'ercast

Darkly my Present and my Past, Let my Future radiant shine

With sweet hopes of thee and thine!

BalladBallad

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I heard a fly buzz when I died;The stillness round my form

Was like the stillness in the airBetween the heaves of storm.

The eyes beside had wrung them dry,And breaths were gathering sureFor that last onset, when the king

Be witnessed in his power.

I willed my keepsakes, signed awayWhat portion of me I

Could make assignable,-and thenThere interposed a fly,

With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz,Between the light and me;

And then the windows failed, and thenI could not see to see.

LyricLyric

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